PigPog

The Flickr Montager will take a tag you tell it, and make a montage of images matching the tag, put together to form a picture matching the tag. That really explains it badly, doesn’t it?

Stick ‘kitten’ into it, and it goes and gets a picture of a kitten. It then builds that picture of a kitten out of lots of tiny, tiny pictures of kittens, which it gets from Flickr.

Oh, just go play. It’s cute, and it’s clicky-clicky.

Nice article from celsius1414 on Zen Pockets. Do you carry too much stuff?

I went through a cut down version of this process a while ago. I’d switched to wearing cargo-style trousers to be able to fit more gadgets and toys with me. After a while, I just didn’t like the cut, but couldn’t switch back because all the stuff I carried wouldn’t fit in ordinary trouser pockets any more. So I had a clear out. I don’t carry a wallet any more – just one debit card and an ID card for work. Bare minimum of other bits, too, though for me that includes a notebook / CheapsterPDA and a mobile phone.

The bag is where things go wrong for me. I carry my tablet PC everywhere now, and always tend to have two cameras with me (or three, if you count the camera in the phone), along with various cables and such.

I can’t do without a watch either. I tend to turn off the clocks on my PCs, because I always know I’ll have a watch on, and don’t worry about keeping clocks on other devices too accurate – because I always know I can rely on my watch (a Citizen Skyhawk Titanium).

(Thanks to 43Folders.)

Worth a read if you like the wet stuff – The Real Secret of Watercolour.

Flickr to start selling photos? – The article isn’t too clear what they’ll really be doing, but it sounds like the’ll let you make books of your pics. Not sure if they’ll be letting you sell books of your photos to other people, but if so, we could have another way to sell PigPog piccies. Interesting news, anyway.

(Thanks to Ian’s Messy Desk.)

Artist Giancarlo Neri has erected a huge chair and table sculpture on Hamstead Heath in London.

(Thanks to Boing Boing.)

Nice article on The Economist’s site about how consumers are having more and more input into the design of new products – The rise of the creative consumer.

We Make Money Not Art pointed us to a great site with photography of abandoned and derelict sites in Russia.

Boing Boing have published another excerpt from World’s Worst – The Least Healthy Diet: Breatharianism. They eat nothing but air and sunlight. Evidence suggests this may actually be a worse idea than Atkins.

We decided long ago that we were going to do ‘Aktins’ – the Low Crab diet. We eat very little crab at all. It’s surprisingly easy to stick to, too, because those ‘crab sticks’ you can get from the supermarked aren’t actually made from crab -they’re cheap white fish, usually surimi.

Just been checking out Winsor & Newton’s web site. It’s not just a catalogue with stockist info, there’s also good tips on paints and painting techniques. Can be a bit slow to load if you’re on dial-up (especially if your connection is anything like ours, which appears to connect and drop on a whim which dropped while I was trying to post this!), but worth taking a look at if you want to do some reading up before hitting the art supplies shops.

These will be the last ones for now, while Michael and I decide where on the site we can put our new daily webcomic. Thank you for your patience.